This is a common phenomenon of history that imperial
powers, after defeating their adversaries militarily, make systematic
efforts to root out their historical heritage and thus reduce them to
a state of intellectual and cultural powerlessness.

Seeing multitudes of impassioned, chest beating
yet totally orderly Shia pilgrims converging in Karbala so soon after
the demise of Saddam Hussein's regime have sent shivering messages to
different sections of global populace.

As Iraqi Shiite demands for a dominant role in
Iraq's future mount, Bush administration officials say they underestimated
the Shiites' organizational strength and are unprepared to prevent the
rise of an anti-American, Islamic fundamentalist government in the country.

Gizzy and other doctors said no Iraqi soldiers
or militiamen were at the Saddam Hospital in Nassariya that night, April
1, when the U.S. Special Operations forces came in helicopters to carry
out the midnight rescue.

The Images of the toppling of a statue of Saddam
Hussein in Firdos Square was stage managed to give the false impression
that the vast majority of the Iraqi people are joyfully welcoming the
invasion and occupation of their country by US and British troops.

The Pentagon and its allies are close to achieving
what they wanted all along, control of the nation of Iraq and its bounty,
which is the wealth and myriad forms of power that flow from control
of the world's second-largest oil reserves.

CNN's Aaron Brown on the network's coverage of
the anti-war movement, the media's sanitization of the invasion of Iraq
and why he believes this is an inappropriate time for reporters to ask
questions about war

Studying world history helps us to suspect that
the current military intervention in Iraq, dubbed Operation Iraqi Freedom,
is powered by the long-standing U.S. policy of enhancing the freedom
of large U.S.-based multinational corporations and banks to do unrestricted
business at will.

How many children, in how many classrooms, over
how many centuries, have hang-glided through the past, transported on
the wings of these words? And now the bombs are falling, incinerating
and humiliating that ancient civilisation

Veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh
reports that the intelligence report that Iraq had bought five hundred
tons of uranium oxide from Niger, which helped the US government to
obtain a congressional mandate for a military assault on Iraq, were
based on forged documents.